flyingarcher31 Jul : 15:32Stopping by after quite a while. Thought maybe most folks went to the Facebook site of this madhouse. I've been enjoying the nice Northern weather here on two wheels. Hope all of you have been well also.

VT19 Jul : 13:35Livin' large in VT. Rockin' the 802! Life is definitely good these days! Have to do some of that work thing for a few days but I can't complain. Get paid well to watch patients in the Emergency Psyche Ward. Just gotta duck every now and then. LOL! Can't hit 'em back no matter how much you want to!

I am so damn broke but wanted to have my 1986 FXSTC Softail "Christine" custom painted and started getting quotes, one local was quoted $1200 and second quote was $1800, I assumed this was just labor not the paints and items needed to do the job and I thought I got this brilliant idea.......

I can do this shit myself......

So is the start this adventure and I proceeded to educate myself on what I would need and what to buy..

I bought a HVLP paint gun reasonable and already had a compressor and items for that I bought the special narrow tape for the outline of the flames and purchased House of Kolor Urethane paints, I wanted more resistance to Gasoline accidents...

I selected Galaxy Grey Shimeron as a basecoat with Orion Silver Shimeron as the flames with planned UK05 Cobalt Blue Urethane Kandy for the outer layer and finish it with UC35 Urethane Clear to finish it. Needed I was informed by the House Of Kolor Instruction Manuel was SG100 inner coat clear for the taping and some basic Urethane Primer to start. I further purchased this and finished off all my credit..

Now I can go on with my Chapter 7 but that is another project for later... LOL.I started by removing the paints and sanding the primer found inside the paint on my original 5 Gallon Fat Bob tanks but decided not to use them and ordered some 6 Gallon Fat Bobs by Custom Chrome these were bare to the metal and better for my project I thought and have extra gallon of gas on the road.....

I begin to see why the cost is so high for custom work is not the painting per say is all the damn prep LOL.....I also I decide why not "shave the rivets" on the front fender like a good custom paint would do so off to work to drill out the rivets and weld the holes and grind them flat and some small bondo for the paint....If I had that to do again I would not have done it LOL, out welder at work is wire feed but has not the temp adjustment needed for such delicate thin steel work.I also would recommend using Gas with the wire feed work to be safe.....I was able to overcome the disaster and make it look presentable and with the bondo and sanding was ready for primer....

The 3 to 4 coats of Primer went on without any issues and the 3 coats of of Galaxy Grey was cool looking all by itself.... then the inner coat of SG100 clear, to protect the paint from the tape and was only couple coats for the tanks and the fenders then after a small dry was the taping off the flames they went on well with Orion Silver, 3 coats......I was toying with using film, like sandwich kind but it melts...

Later found this out LOL.... so ended up doing hours of intense prep with just masking tape.....the first time it came off looked great... the problem was me and my picky ass.... spot here and there to fix, leading to more mistakes and work this is where I was getting frustrated and went to bed...... got up fresh had coffee and fixed the problems to my liking the small things should be hidden by the deep Kandy blue anyway.....I never set out to do a perfect job just a one of a kind custom work

Started getting everything ready for the Kandy work now am planning 5 thin coats of Kandy 6 at the max....decided to let the "touchup work" cure more is 101 degrees outside and i prepared a shop in my daughters room since I plan to upgrade it this month anyway... fix the bed put a window unit and ect, ect..

My children don't pat a eye at anything I do. Daddy's a pure 100% Biker......and the things I do in my place would lead to a divorce if I were not a Single dad already LMAO.

I decided to eat and have another coffee and started this Blog, photo, web journal thingy.... then back to the finish...

I am reading that the Kandy and Clear have to go one back to back between coats and when damp still.....

Now back to the Job..... be back soon to finish this thingy and add the pictures......

Ok back now having a well deserved cold beer now, the Kandy Process went smooth and easy, and was simply spellbinding and magical I put maybe 7 coats since I was painting very light coats.

I was so enrapt and spellbound..... my Kandy paint began to congeal in my spray gun requiring a emergency and complete disassembly and though cleaning......

This changed my plans to spray the clear today but I think I will just take my time now over the week with clear after the Kandy thoroughly dries.... maybe 12 to 24 hours and touching up the framework with Kandy.. no i got lazy and just doing what you can see... LOL.....and putting my new drive belt on... for this job the entire primary assembly has to be removed and replaced.... puff.....

So this is my tale did you like it? I paid out of pocket maybe $500.00 USDSo the summary of this tale is..... was it easy?... no... was it worth it? .. Hell Yeah!

he link isnt working for me but the pic above is pretty sick. i just went through the same shit too. went to a few places they wanted over a grand, so i bought all the stuff i needed and painted it myself. came out pretty good. i used kustom shop paint. now i have paint guns and can paint some of my buds bikes too.

Sure beats my rattle can finish ... im going ALL OUT on the chopper ... black primer has been the colour of choice the last 30 yrs but ive already picked my cans ... semi gloss black ...i know its a little over the top i hope it dont scare the neighbours with too much shine ... just waiting for a sunny day and a steady hand

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